10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2012
When I emerged from my bedroom I learned what you, no doubt, as a regular reader have already deduced – it was the now-infamous “Eagle Steals a Baby” hoax video. I was pretty sure it was fake from the get-go, because who brings their baby to a golf course in Montreal to bait eagles?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2017
She is The Eagle Huntress , the young Kazakh star of this captivating film, and her joy comes from a life integrally connected to nature. In Act 1, we meet Aisholpan and her family—her eagle hunter father, Rys, her hard working mother, Almagul, her younger sister and brother, and her grandfather, also once an eagle hunter.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Homework assignment: Is the bird in this video a male or a female? Fortunately for the honor of the species, the researchers found that kleptoparasitism was practiced at a low rate (4% of observations) while much more often, drongos captured insects disturbed by other species (41% of observations). And there is a video here.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. While serpent means large snake, the Crested Serpent-eagle also eats frogs, as this video shows. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. 2019), and now this book.
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2023
For example, a researcher and presumed ornithologist set out with two hypotheses related to the Ashy Drongo (and another drongo species) and wrote a paper about it. Being a Yellow-bellied Fantail seems exhausting, judging from online videos – the bird seems to be very active, always moving or at least glancing around.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
Many robins, eagles and finches later, he ended up at university studying various biology things and wrote a thesis on vertebrate biogeography in southern African forests. While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds.
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